Quality Control category: 855 books
by Ronald King
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Six Sigma and this book challenges traditional thinking and approaches to product and service design. Has a nice flow. One can easily find key topics for reference. Get this too if you plan to use it as one of our foundations for training. Deep, new perspectives on "old" tools and their applications....
Continuous Improvement Strategies
How to Manage, Motivate, and Retain Staff
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
During this era of continuous improvement, healthcare organizations need to be staffed by engaged, motivated, and hard-working frontline employees. As these clinical and non-clinical personnel handle most of the important tasks in any organization and are often the people who directly interact with...
The TWI Facilitator's Guide
How to Use the TWI Programs Successfully
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
There are many books available covering the Training Within Industry (TWI) programs, but few include any unique material on adaptation or modification – This dearth of new has caused practitioners to alter the programs without understanding the underlying principles. These changes have made the...
Sustainable Lean
The Story of a Cultural Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
If you‘ve employed consultants and embarked on a Lean transformation only to find your efforts stall after the consultants leave, this book will teach you what you must do to stay the course over the long term. Using a compelling novel format, Sustainable Lean: The Story of a Cultural Transformation illustrates the process of implementing a sustain
Lean Office and Service Simplified
The Definitive How-To Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Winner of a 2012 Shingo Research and Professional Publication AwardDemystifying the application of Lean methods, Lean Office and Service Simplified: The Definitive How-To Guide goes beyond the basic tools to detail the key concepts of Lean as they apply to office and service environments. It begins by discussing value stream management, followed by
by Mike Elbert
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A hands-on guide to adapting Lean principles and the Toyota Production System to high-mix/low-volume environments, Lean Production for the Small Company uses charts, pictures, and easy-to-understand language to describe the methods needed to improve processes and eliminate waste. It walks readers...
Reflections on Hoshin Planning
Guidance for Leaders and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The conditions in which leaders apply Hoshin Planning today have changed substantially since the method was established in the 1950’s. There is better and more broadly distributed understanding of statistical process improvement principles and practices in today’s organizations. Executives seem...
Simple
Killing Complexity for a Lean and Agile Organization
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
The parameters of competition in business today are changing -- big does not necessarily beat small anymore; fast is beating slow. Agility, speed, and flexibility are the key elements of a successful strategy and execution in the corporate world as wells as in government agencies, health care, and...
Global Lean
Seeing the New Waste Rooted in Communication, Distance, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Just because a problem is invisible doesn’t mean it’s not affecting your operation. While communication, distance, and culture are often ignored as real threats to your results, these unnoticed forces are negatively affecting companies that operate internationally. Globalization has amplified...
On Time, In Full
Achieving Perfect Delivery with Lean Thinking in Purchasing, Supply Chain, and Production Planning
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
"On Time-In Full" is an important work. Tim McLean provides an easy to follow practical approach to building a highly performing supply chain"
-Drew Locher, Shingo Prize Winning Author and Lean Thinker
The most fundamental requirement for a manufacturing or distribution...
Manufacturing Technology Transfer
A Japanese Monozukuri View of Needs and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Based on a bestselling book originally published in Japanese, Manufacturing Technology Transfer: A Japanese Monozukuri View of Needs and Strategies offers time-tested methods and little-known tips for achieving successful transfer of technology along with the skills required to operate that technology....
The Controller as Lean Leader
A Novel on Changing Behavior with a Lean Cost Management System
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Traditional accounting systems have become inadequate for today’s increasingly competitive global manufacturing environment. They are too complex and too focused on past performance. As manufacturing techniques change and become less labor intensive, accounting methods must also evolve. Regardless...
True Kaizen
Management's Role in Improving Work Climate and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
What does it take to manage an organization to success? No matter what industry you are in, an organization is primarily a group of people. This book focuses on that ever-important human element. In the rush to get 'lean', many organizations focus solely on tools for increasing productivity, but where...
Skills of Encouragement
Bringing Out the Best in Yourself and Others
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Most of us believe that every event has a cause and effect. We often feel there is someone or something we can put the blame onto besides ourselves. We may blame everyone from our parents to our bosses. Discouragement and unhappiness are ways of life for many of us.Now there is a book that addresses...